Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Australian Natural Capital (Ip) Pty Ltd. has 1 pending office action in its company patent portfolio. This activity is located in the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area. A single distinct examiner, FITZGERALD, JOHN P, is handling the 1 pending action within 1 distinct art unit. The busiest examiner, FITZGERALD, JOHN P, is responsible for 1 pending action, which represents the entirety of the company's current pending workload. This narrow focus suggests that the company's current prosecution is concentrated on a specific technical matter.
With 1 pending office action and 1 distinct examiner, the company's immediate patent strategy is not diversified across multiple examiners or art units. Practitioners can focus on the specific requirements of the Semiconductors, Circuits & Optics technology area and the individual examiner's history to navigate this 1 pending action. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 matches the total number of pending office actions, indicating that the prosecution is centralized. The resolution of this 1 pending office action is the primary focus for the company's current interaction with the patent office.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §102 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 1 | 75.2% | +2.0% |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2855 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18550863 | A METHOD OF MEASURING SOIL | FITZGERALD, JOHN P | 2855 | §102 | Final Rejection | — | Pending | Sep 15, 2023 |
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